An article from a US psychiatric journal dropped into my in-box: “Hooked on Messy Loving”? Usually I press delete. Or forward to my friend and colleague with a mutually understood sigh. We psychotherapists can be a little suspicious around…

What’s Love Got To Do With It? Valentine’s Day has been and gone. While the greetings card and flower industries are measuring their takings, most of us go back to ordinary worries around our relationships: are we in one? Can we stay in…

With Christmas fast approaching, I have more time than usual to reflect. Prior to limerence, I hadn’t appreciated how I used my addictive tendencies to distract myself from my inner feelings of anxiety and dysthymia, a constant low grade depression…

Its been a few days since I returned from a ManKind Project Rites of Passage weekend. See http://mankindproject.org/ I’m still processing and will likely be for some time. The weekend could not have come at a more appropriate time. I…

Like most film fans, I was saddened by the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Academy Award winning actor and director, earlier this month. Hoffman was found dead, it was reported, in his bathroom, a syringe in his arm and bags of heroin scattered…

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